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The complete domestic Bible, : containing the Old and New Testaments, together with the Apocrypha, concordance, and Psalms of David in metre. : Translated out of the original tongues ... : Beautifully illustrated.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio Zinman 116
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.
- Dummies (Bookselling).
- Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription trade, etc.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Bookbinding--Specimens.
- Bookbinding.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Prospectuses.
- Subscription lists (Publishing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Canvassing Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- [Canvassing book].
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Hubbard Bros., [not before 1874]
- Notes:
- Canvassing book consisting of specimen leaves and illustrations; cancellans title; handbill and half broadside prospectuses; lined subscription order leaves.
- Binding: full leather binding, with morocco cover quarter-sample (stamped in gilt: "Quarter of G Side") mounted to front pastedown. Two leather spine samples mounted to rear pastedown.
- Several chromo leaves and German translation copyrighted 1874.
- Additional specimen leaves for German translation: Neue illustrirte familien bibel.
- Local Notes:
- Zinman 116 has subscription order leaves containing names of 13 subscribers from towns in Bucks County, PA, dated 1878, with binding preferences and occasional note "Name on," i.e. name to be stamped on front cover of book.
- Cited in:
- Arbour, K. Canvassing books, 116
- OCLC:
- 913141583
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